Not Rick but..MOOG TAURUS 3! pedals

[(seyesbass)]

I just happened to Google Taurus pedals in case some poor nutcase was selling theirs cheap!! (like you do)
Anyway I found ads for the new Moog Taurus 3 updated re-issue of the legendary Taurus 2 pedals.
They are knocking them out at £2000 a piece which is still £500 less than a refurbished set of originals.
Apparently its a ltd run of 1000.
I use Roland PK5 pedals linked to an EMU Xtreme Lead synth module and it works a treat but its all bits and pieces to set up onstage.
Seriously thinking of checking out a set of these Moog ones if any come to town.
One thing is different from the originals and thats the actual pedals which look curiously similar to the PK5 ones.
The old taurus pedals were spread apart in a fannned out style.
Link:
http://www.moogmusic.com/taurus/?produc ... on=product

[(weemac)]

It's nice to see that Moog is trying to keep its prices relatively earthbound and resisting outsourcing..
I'd love to have a set!

Eden.

[(cjj)]

Yeah, but they say they are producing less than 1000 of them, so you'd better get yours quickly...

[(leftybass)]

Pete, I have the PK-5 pedals as well with a JV-1010 Roland module(for about 10 years)...lots of sounds. I use all of that with a Korg MS-2000, which is like a Minimoog in many respects...many Moog-ish sounds with that one...great for the Rush tunes we played, quite authentic....

I'd love to have a set of Taurus 3's, but WHEW what a lot of bread....

[(BAD RONBO, KiLLeR DWaRfS)]

my buddy with the smashed rickenfaker is getting one of the thousand taurus III's. a requirement is to put 50% down. i told him about it a couple of months ago, and when he went to the music store to order one , they didn't even know they existed ! he had to prove it to them by going on their website. they're 2000.00 usd.

john said...I'd love to have a set of Taurus 3's, but WHEW what a lot of bread....

hey, dude...have you watched the sales on eby for the taurus mk I's ??? $2500.00 to $4000.00 all day ! i got my mk 1 from my roady for 650.00 back in 1987 with clydesdale case. i bought a set for my rickenfaker buddy a few years ago for 1000.00 on ebay. when he could not pay me back i re-sold them for 2500.00 on ebay. mine are 1975 pedals made a few blocks from me. now it's a flea market, but you can still view the moog artwork on the walls of the factory like circuit boards etc.

[(harrek)]

I put my deposit down on a set of Taurus 3's about a year ago. After looking at the used market I was very happy that
they decided to update and make more. I had thought that they had allocated those 1000 darn fast and would be surprised
if you could get one now. But then again a retailer might have put deposits down on them without having a buyer knowing
they would sell them.

Either way they should be shipping these new ones soon or already are.

[(hieronymous)]

I was one of the early adopters - $300 off! Plus high on the list, so hopefully mine will ship within the month. Then I will have a real Taurus and not a "Taurus 4001"...



(which is actually a Moog Little Phatty controlled by Roland PK-5 pedals)

[(BAD RONBO, KiLLeR DWaRfS)]

an ex-moog employee that lives in lockport near here, (who i take my tarus pedals to for servicing) designed a 1" rack mount version of the taurus mk 1 with pedals from the taurus mk 2 extended pedal board. very nice !

[(leftybass)]

hey, dude...have you watched the sales on eby for the taurus mk I's ??? $2500.00 to $4000.00 all day ! i got my mk 1 from my roady for 650.00 back in 1987 with clydesdale case. i bought a set for my rickenfaker buddy a few years ago for 1000.00 on ebay. when he could not pay me back i re-sold them for 2500.00 on ebay. mine are 1975 pedals made a few blocks from me. now it's a flea market, but you can still view the moog artwork on the walls of the factory like circuit boards etc.

Oh I know it's all gone up in price, there has been a big resurgence in analog synth stuff....

When the Minimoog Voyagers came out I thought they were really high, too...at like $3600 or whatever it was, especially since a vintage Model D Minimoog could be bought for about $2K and change.

I should have bought a Taurus 1 when they were going for $1100...oh well, the Roland stuff works fine.

[(hieronymous)]

Mine shipped! Due next week, barring weather problems...

[(johnallg)]

Mine shipped! Due next week, barring weather problems...

Review and sound samples!

[(aceonbass)]

A couple of years ago I got an unexpected bonus at work and had a set of bass pedals custom built for me. The pedals control a small computer with a touch screen and a Windows XP operating system. I have separate controls for volume and modulation as well as a button that drops the pedals one octave each time I hit it and another that raises it . The computer has 14 sounds in it, including the Taurus sound, as well as Hammond, choir, flute, piano and other sounds. There's a WiFi card in the computer so I can pull more sounds from the internet, but I haven't tried. It's sounds great and only cost me $725.00 to have built. I had them made into a case with a removable lid like a typewriter.

[(BAD RONBO, KiLLeR DWaRfS)]

a B3 hammond chord would sound great at the touch of a foot for a bassist !

[(gearhed289)]

One thing is different from the originals and thats the actual pedals which look curiously similar to the PK5 ones.
The old taurus pedals were spread apart in a fannned out style.
Link:
http://www.moogmusic.com/taurus/?produc ... on=product

Not sure what you mean by "fanned out" but the original Taurus pedals were straight across like a PK5. I've got both. Back in September, somebody GAVE me the Taurus. This old guy in a Dixieland band saw my PK5 and started telling me about these old pedals he had sitting in his garage. I picked them up the following weekend, complete with the original manual, and an Anvil flight case! He refused to take any money. I spent less than $300 getting them operational again, and cosmetically, they're near perfect, plexi door and everything. WOW! Such a nice gesture, I don't have the heart to flip them. Besides that, I've dreamed of having a set of originals since I was a high school Rush geek. I had the Taurus II, but there's no comparison. The III looks awesome, and prices have definitely come down quite a bit on the originals since they announced the III. Tempting...

My synth rig:
Roland Juno-G
Oberheim Matrix 6 (with Alesis Quadraverb)
Moog Taurus
Roland PK5

[(BAD RONBO, KiLLeR DWaRfS)]

mr. gearhead said:

This old guy in a Dixieland band saw my PK5 and started telling me about these old pedals he had sitting in his garage.

ronbo says : what progressive dixieland band uses a taurus mk1 !!!!!! ?????????